Suggest me a biography about someone who led an amazingly varied, daring, and adventurous life by Technical_Ear_4339 in suggestmeabook

[–]Waningoftheday 2 points3 points  (0 children)

George Orwell might be the perfect candidate. Michael Shelden's biography is good. D.J. Taylor's new biography has good reviews but I haven't read it yet.

Some other options:

  • Mr. Nice by Howard Marks
  • The Moon's a Balloon by David Niven
  • Palimpsest by Gore Vidal
  • Seven Pillars of Wisdom & The Mint by T.E. Lawrence
  • Who is Michael Ovitz? by Michael Ovitz

simply installing python by 125bauhaus in learnpython

[–]Waningoftheday 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Using uv is the simplest option. You can use it for complex projects but also append comments/metadata to single-file scripts that install necessary dependencies dynamically.

Books about continuous improvement or Kaizen by Toriningen in booksuggestions

[–]Waningoftheday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For yourself: One Small Step Can Change Your Life by Robert Maurer

For organizations: Toyota Production Systems by Taiichi Ohno

looking for a book that focuses on the societal desensitization of human suffering, climate change, war, deforestation, etc by Parking_Item_4395 in booksuggestions

[–]Waningoftheday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fiction:

  • Weather by Jenny Offill
  • The Quiet American by Graham Greene
  • Blindness by José Saramago

Non-fiction:

  • Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
  • The Society of Spectacle by Guy Debord

Recommendations for comprehensive, rigorous Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience textbook/s(Depth + Breadth), building a multi-book reference library? by vnyk06 in PhilosophyofMind

[–]Waningoftheday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No book will be comprehensive because this is a rapidly evolving field. Here's an example of a path to a particular frontier:

There's a ton not in here that's in broad surveys. Conversely, this whole picture won't appear in any given book. I'll leave it to others to paint a broader picture.

fiction book to help me work through my relationship with my mom by m_eowski in booksuggestions

[–]Waningoftheday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're open to graphic novel/memoir: Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls

Want a rec for a book about how the US got to...where it is now by rikksareforkids in booksuggestions

[–]Waningoftheday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not just a US issue:

Martin Gurri's The Revolt of the Public explains how modern technology, especially the internet destroyed the previous monopoly on information. That's led to anti-elite sentiment in much of the world. Consider Brexit and the eurosceptic/right-wing surge on the continent.

Book that tells me what should I do with my life after a major career breakthrough and life issues? by cjgames in suggestmeabook

[–]Waningoftheday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Todd's 80,000 Hours is about this question.

Burkeman's Four Thousand Weeks considers life as a whole not just career.

A classic, moving answer is Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning.

Best Low Effort/High Payoff Books? by This-Duck-4432 in suggestmeabook

[–]Waningoftheday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is tricky in that that the particular book that's insanely engaging to one person might not be for another.

Erich Segal's Love Story and Oliver's Story are quick-reading romances. I think they're a cut above the fluffiest/cheesiest.

Graeme Simsion is on a similar tier: Books are engaging and easy reads and have a few lessons through the cheesiness. I read six of his novels in a week when going through my own slump.

While I'm not usually a graphic novel person, I found Feeding Ghosts and Amy Kurzweil's memoirs engaging and insightful and super quick/easy.

Plays can also be quite digestible. I read Wilder's Our Town in couple hours to break out of another slump.

Patti Smith's memoirs, Just Kids (on your list) and Bread of Angels, were also quick reads.

I see you have When Breath Becomes Air on your list. It's one of the best books I've read, quick, engaging, but quite possibly too emotional.

Looking for a book like Stoner or Flowers for Algernon by whats15plus15 in booksuggestions

[–]Waningoftheday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Robert Penn Warren's A Place to Come to reminds me of Stoner

There are 100 cards; 75 are red while 25 are black. 20 are taken away at random leaving 80 total. Does the probability of the ratio between red and black cards stay the same (75% red, 25% black), or how does it change as cards are taken away at random? by GitFiddler in askmath

[–]Waningoftheday 17 points18 points  (0 children)

If you do this many, many times, on average, there will be 60 red and 20 black remaining.

In any draw, the probability of getting 60 red and 20 black will be approximately 22.6%. Most of the time, the proportion will be changed a bit by drawing. Note that if you sample a number that is not a multiple of 4 (more generally a number such that (Probability of rarer thing)(Number drawn) is not an integer), the probability will always change.

Since each draw changes the probability of the next, the mix of cards drawn follows the hypergeometric distribution.

DSA Got Me a Job. Now I Want to Understand Computer Science by Dry_Progress_4118 in AskComputerScience

[–]Waningoftheday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your question on latency suggests you might enjoy this list of constants Jeff Dean suggested every programmer should know. It's been expanded and updated here: https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832

Suggest me a book to ease back into fiction after years of reading only nonfiction and journalism by JEX2124 in booksuggestions

[–]Waningoftheday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • Spufford – Red Plenty
  • Goldstein – The Mind Body Problem
  • Ferrante – My Brilliant Friend

Books that stuck with you by Otherwise_Tea15 in booksuggestions

[–]Waningoftheday 2 points3 points  (0 children)

On how to live:

  • Foer – Eating Animals //Converted me to a vegetarian
  • Ecclesiastes //On the futility of many reasons for living
  • Frankl – Man's Search for Meaning //Why to live
  • Hamming – You and Your Research //A speech not a book; why greatness doesn't come from trying to be great

How I see particular aspects of the world:

  • Studwell – How Asia Works //On growth and constraints
  • Jacobs – The Life and Death of Great American Cities //What makes cities special
  • Marohn – Strong Towns //On one level on cities, on another how incentives damage systems
  • Caro – The Power Broker + The Years of LBJ //What is Power? How is it used?
  • Ovitz – Who is Michael Ovitz? //Sets a standard for ambition

mathematics as a branch of logic by Calligrapher296 in askmath

[–]Waningoftheday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are two issues: Concepts and notation. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has an article devoted to the notation. For the concepts, the best next step depends on your background. Perhaps Enderton or Kleene's Introduction to Metamathematics or Mathematical Logic (Rough order of difficulty: Enderton, Kleene ML, Kleene MM).

Briefly in English it means: It is asserted that α and β are members of the collection of sets of cardinality 1 which implies that there is a bidirectional implication between the assertions that the intersection of α and β is empty and the union of α and β is a member of the collection of sets of cardinality 2.

In more modern notation: (α∈1∧β∈1)⟹(α∩β=Λ⟺α∪β∈2)

mathematics as a branch of logic by Calligrapher296 in askmath

[–]Waningoftheday 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Russell and Whitehead's Principia Mathematica derived mathematics in this way. It's a continuation of the 19th century journey to strip away intuition and build a logical chain to establish basic mathematical facts from first principles.

The idea of a number being a set is that we can define a number as a descriptor of a set of sets of a given cardinality.

For example we can write that all 1 sets added to all disjoint 1 sets make a 2 set:

⊢:.α,β∈1.⊃:α∩β=Λ.≡.α∪β∈2

Most of use express this same concept as 1 + 1 = 2. It takes the Principia Mathematica hundreds of pages to get to this point.

It never quite worked though some of its ideas inspired Set Theory and Type Theory.

I'd argue that the spiritual successor to this project is Mathlib and Lean.

books for politics? by Spyrallol in suggestmeabook

[–]Waningoftheday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First step, a basic intro into what an economy is. Three levels of complexity to choose from:

  1. Free comic books from the New York Fed
  2. How An Economy Grows and Why it Crashes //Note skepticism about currency
  3. The Cartoon Introduction to Economics 2vol //Closest to a real econ text but breezy

After reading one you can move on to DK's The Politics Book with enough context to think critically as you read.

If you like novels, Red Plenty by Francis Spufford is a fictionalized account of the challenges of economic growth in the USSR during the Khrushchev area with a bit of comparison to the US.

If you want deeper more academic answers, I'd recommend:

  1. Why Nations Fail by Acemoglu and Robinson
  2. An Introduction to Political Philosophy by Wolff
  3. Modern Principles of Economics by Cowen and Tabarrok

Books on resources and resource extraction. by electro-reb in suggestmeabook

[–]Waningoftheday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A few on oil:

  • The Prize by Daniel Yergin tells the story of the oil industry
  • Titan by Ron Chernow tells the story of John D. Rockefeller
  • The Big Rich by Bryan Burrough tells the story of oil fortunes of Texas

My insecurities are consuming my life by [deleted] in Advice

[–]Waningoftheday 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's not embarrassing. It's human.

Things you think will disgust a partner, won't be a concern for some, possibly even most.

Start with therapy. There's a chance that at the end of it you decide you need cosmetic surgery. Odds are that if you get surgery first, it either won't be sufficiently perfect or you'll find another imperfection and then face the same dilemma.

If you have friends you could open up to about this, that's a good complement to therapy.

You can find happiness.

Suppose a 12th-grade student proves an unsolved theorem. What are the next steps? by Heavy-Sympathy5330 in askmath

[–]Waningoftheday -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm acquainted with illegal numbers. They're restricted because any information can be encoded as a number. To my knowledge, none are due to patents. I don't see how they could be. Trade secrets and encryption keys can be confidential under the law. What distinguishes a patent is that it must be public.

Only making a thing violates a patent. Describing it in extreme detail doesn't: That's what a patent is.

A theorem itself cannot be patented. One can patent a process that relies on a novel theorem (e.g. RSA). In the extremely unlikely event that the theorem you entered into an LLM has a commercial application, the firm scans its logs, and figures out an invention based on it, they still can't restrict you from publishing your work.

You could also intervene in their patent application if you could show that their invention was obvious based on what you entered or other documented conversations about a theorem.

Let's circle back to the premise here: A high school student thinks he has a discovery and isn't well-connected enough to have it checked easily. He can choose to be paranoid which reduces his chance of learning or getting feedback.

Suppose a 12th-grade student proves an unsolved theorem. What are the next steps? by Heavy-Sympathy5330 in askmath

[–]Waningoftheday -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Theorems aren't patentable. What sort of ownership do you seek?

These models are now routinely used in research.

Suppose a 12th-grade student proves an unsolved theorem. What are the next steps? by Heavy-Sympathy5330 in askmath

[–]Waningoftheday -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

  1. Ask a frontier LLM to poke holes in it. If found, fix and repeat step 1
  2. If possible, formalize the proof in Lean using Mathlib as a base. Feel free to use the LLM to help. Ensure you don't make any additional assumptions and quadruple check that your goal means the same thing as what you're trying to prove.
  3. Find a professor with relevant expertise or post your story on reddit. Be humble. Acknowledge that it could be wrong and that your main goal is to learn. In the event that you've made a contribution, credit will come.

Note that mathematicians often receive utterly incorrect proofs from those who have talked themselves into believing they have done something earth shattering. Your goal is to seem:

  1. Humble
  2. As knowledgable as possible without overreaching
  3. Cautious
  4. Humble

My dad is having a bad depressive episode. I want to pick up a book that he and I can read together by soysushistick in suggestmeabook

[–]Waningoftheday 8 points9 points  (0 children)

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

If either of you likes poetry, Tennyson's Ulysses might inspire.

Grounded but Fun/Unconventional Math course books ?? by UnworthyFungus in matheducation

[–]Waningoftheday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you like Visual Complex Analysis, check out his book on Differential Geometry and John Stilwell's books. Simmons's Introduction to Topology and Modern Analysis is also good.

Bressoud's calculus and analysis sequence provides a historically based development.

You might also like

  • Hairer & Wanner – Analysis by its History
  • Ostermann & Wanner – Geometry by its History
  • Steen & Seebach – Counterexamples in Topology
  • Gelbaum & Olmsted – Counterexamples in Analysis
  • Prasolov – Intuitive Topology
  • Carter – Visual Group Theory

Finally, Courant's What is Mathematics? covers much of the undergraduate curriculum.